Bail-fastener for buckets, tubs, &amp;c.



Patented July 4, $99.. A. R. McDONNELL. BAIL FASTENER FOB BUCKETS, TUBS, 8w.

A lication filed Oct. 12, 1593.

No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

ALEX R. MODONNELL, OF LITTLETON, MAINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 628,020, dated July 4, 1899. Application filed October 12, 1898. Serial No- 693,315. (No model.)

improve the construction of bail-fasteners for buckets, tubs, and analogous receptacles and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficien't device which will enable a bail to be readily hinged to a wooden receptacle.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a bucket provided with a bail-fastener constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective View of the bail=fastener. Fig. 3 is a front end elevation.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

1 designates abail-fastener. mounted on one side of a bucket 2 and provided with an eye I 3, in which is linked one end of a bail 4., whereby the latter is hinged to the bucket. The bail-fastener, which is constructed of a single piece of wire, is doubled between its ends to form the eye 3, and the wire at one side of the eye is bent around the other side to form a flat coil 5, which fits against the outer face of the bucket and obviates the necessity of employing a plateor washer. The

ends of the wire, which extend, respectively,

in opposite directions from the eye and the coil, are bent at right angles to form L-shaped arms or portions 6, which constitute a staple, and the parallel sidesor portions of the staple are driven into the bucket-and may be clenched against the inner face of the same,

if desired. The sides or portions which are embedded in the bucket engage the same at two distinct points, and the device may be arranged so that its engaging portions will be embedded in two of the staves or pieces of a bucket or tub. It may be applied to the ends of a hinged bail, which extends entirely across a bucket in the usual manner, and it can also be employed for hinging the ordinary rectangular handles to the sides of tubs or analogous receptacles. ing as a bearing and obviating the necessity of providing a plate or staple for the device, strengthens the latter at the point of attachment to the ball or handle and prevents the eye from being distorted.

The invention has the following advantages The device is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction and is adapted to be made of a single piece of wire.- It is quickly applied to a wooden vessel, and it possesses the necessary strength for securing bails and handles to buckets, tubs, and analogous receptacles. It engages the bucket or other Vessel at two distinct points, and it obviates the necessity of employing plates or washers to prevent the handle from wearing the wood.

What is claimed is In a device of the class described, the combination with a wooden receptacle, and a bail having an eye, of a bail-fastener constructed of a single piece of wire and comprising an eye 3 linked into the eye of the bail, a flat coil arranged at the base of the eye and fitting against the said receptacle, and the arms or shanks extending respectively from the coil and from one side of the eye 3 and embedded in the wooden receptacle, substantially as described. v

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ALEX R. MCDONNELL.

Witnesses:

PRESTON N. BURLEIGH, HARRY R. BURLEIGH.

Theflat coil, besides serv- 

